Die Freiheit des Erzählens
Germany, January 2007
FILM,
Documentary,
100 min.
- directed by
- Casten Does, Robin Cackett
- Written by
- Casten Does
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.gad-beck.de
Gad Beck is a great story teller. He was ten years old when the Nazis came to power and 19 when his great love Manfred Lewin was deported and killed in Auschwitz. He was interned at Rosenstrasse camp in Berlin in 1943 but set free after unique street protests by non-Jewish relatives. As leader of an underground group Gad Beck afterwards helped many illegal Jews to survive until he and his friends were caught. How is history remembered and told? A film about the poetics of memory and about the omnipresence of media representations in history. A film about negotiating between generations, about curiosity, flirtation and tact. A film about mundane heroism and gay lust for life in a murderous time.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2007
- Original Version
- German (english subtitles), colour, Digi Beta, 100 min.
- Production
- Never Lose Faith Productions
- Producer
- directed by
- Casten Does, Robin Cackett
- Written by
- Casten Does
- Cinematography
- Frank Kranstedt
- Editing
- Susanne Foidl
- Music
- Till Brandt
- Location Sound Mix
- Robin Cackett, Ruth Spätling, Susann Liman
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Never Lose Faith Productions
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2007 - 28.01.2007